Joshua Sparrow
@josha-wah.bsky.social
Sometimes I jest that ACAB includes reddit moderators—like that time I got banned from r/Libertarian because, quote: "Left libertarianism is an oxymoron. There can be no liberty without economic liberty."—but I can see how it swings both ways. It was a mod on another sub that directed me to C4SS.
December 12, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Sometimes I jest that ACAB includes reddit moderators—like that time I got banned from r/Libertarian because, quote: "Left libertarianism is an oxymoron. There can be no liberty without economic liberty."—but I can see how it swings both ways. It was a mod on another sub that directed me to C4SS.
What if God was one of us, just a gooner on a bus?
December 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
What if God was one of us, just a gooner on a bus?
An- means without, -archy means cringe. So "anarchy" just means "without cringe".
December 5, 2025 at 2:10 AM
An- means without, -archy means cringe. So "anarchy" just means "without cringe".
I had a passing thought of waving the notion that UV radiation is an evolutionary factor in melanin production, as a means of redirecting racism into slightly more productive climate activism... Alas, I think Musk would be the kind of mf who'd just try and blow up the sun to make us all white 🤔
December 3, 2025 at 6:37 AM
I had a passing thought of waving the notion that UV radiation is an evolutionary factor in melanin production, as a means of redirecting racism into slightly more productive climate activism... Alas, I think Musk would be the kind of mf who'd just try and blow up the sun to make us all white 🤔
There's this photo on the C4SS store, only missing your latest.
November 27, 2025 at 11:33 PM
There's this photo on the C4SS store, only missing your latest.
There's an author in my country—Terry Deary—who notoriously took aim against libraries for undercutting creators by "giving their product away for free". Not a popular stance, but perfectly consistent with those who would sooner swallow spiders to catch flies than attack the root of deprivation...
Libraries 'have had their day', says Horrible Histories author
Author of children's bestsellers Terry Deary says they are a drain on taxpayers and authors that no longer makes sense
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
There's an author in my country—Terry Deary—who notoriously took aim against libraries for undercutting creators by "giving their product away for free". Not a popular stance, but perfectly consistent with those who would sooner swallow spiders to catch flies than attack the root of deprivation...
This book then, (and Gillis' work more broadly) is of a kind that *anyone* would benefit from understanding. Not least the artist, who is nothing but a sophist aside from their relationship to science and radicalism. If you hear the phrase "read a fucking book"... this is it. This is the "book".
Hey, I wrote a book.
Did The Science Wars Take Place?
Covers the history and philosophy of a fight in the 80s & 90s between some postmodernists and scientists, with an eye to anarchist interests and lasting political influences among the far-right.
Pre-order here: store.c4ss.org/index.php/pr...
Did The Science Wars Take Place?
Covers the history and philosophy of a fight in the 80s & 90s between some postmodernists and scientists, with an eye to anarchist interests and lasting political influences among the far-right.
Pre-order here: store.c4ss.org/index.php/pr...
November 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
This book then, (and Gillis' work more broadly) is of a kind that *anyone* would benefit from understanding. Not least the artist, who is nothing but a sophist aside from their relationship to science and radicalism. If you hear the phrase "read a fucking book"... this is it. This is the "book".
Hence, I am a radical first and an artist second, and ONLY the latter because I suspect that any sufficiently complex account of cognition and cultural diffusion would prove the present-day necessity of art as a mere rhetorical device.
November 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Hence, I am a radical first and an artist second, and ONLY the latter because I suspect that any sufficiently complex account of cognition and cultural diffusion would prove the present-day necessity of art as a mere rhetorical device.
To be an artist then—and nothing else in support of that!—is antithetical to radical truth-seeking. At best, you may know the "science" of influencing others but be otherwise divorced from the world or lost within it: a shepherd no wiser than sheep.
November 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
To be an artist then—and nothing else in support of that!—is antithetical to radical truth-seeking. At best, you may know the "science" of influencing others but be otherwise divorced from the world or lost within it: a shepherd no wiser than sheep.
To make any work of art, is an exercise in vast over-simplification. We are always slicing information away or eliciting some tenuous association, such as between truth and aesthetic beauty, or the relatable qualities of a character and his ascribed thoughts.
November 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
To make any work of art, is an exercise in vast over-simplification. We are always slicing information away or eliciting some tenuous association, such as between truth and aesthetic beauty, or the relatable qualities of a character and his ascribed thoughts.
For me it was Carl Benjamin. It makes me sick looking back but it does kinda show that convergence is possible. Like, regardless of starting point we can arrive at the same conclusions. I thought Reddit was very good for expanding my world personally but that's a mixed bag too.
November 19, 2025 at 1:05 AM
For me it was Carl Benjamin. It makes me sick looking back but it does kinda show that convergence is possible. Like, regardless of starting point we can arrive at the same conclusions. I thought Reddit was very good for expanding my world personally but that's a mixed bag too.
Were these all recorded?
October 23, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Were these all recorded?
It helps to understand that when these people talk about masculinity, they just mean male superiority. They get nice feelies when told they're special on account of being male. Then something challenges that and it makes them sad. So, then they dress it all up in the language of cultural analysis 👍👍
October 2, 2025 at 11:19 PM
It helps to understand that when these people talk about masculinity, they just mean male superiority. They get nice feelies when told they're special on account of being male. Then something challenges that and it makes them sad. So, then they dress it all up in the language of cultural analysis 👍👍
Love Stewart Lee. Got to see him at the Edinburgh Fringe a few years ago :)
September 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Love Stewart Lee. Got to see him at the Edinburgh Fringe a few years ago :)
In truth, there can be no "free speech" except between equals, engaging under the necessary conditions for mutually-beneficial dialogue. Likewise, there can be no meaningful conception of "political violence" that doesn't include the incitement of state and civilian hostility that Kirk was known for
September 18, 2025 at 11:02 PM
In truth, there can be no "free speech" except between equals, engaging under the necessary conditions for mutually-beneficial dialogue. Likewise, there can be no meaningful conception of "political violence" that doesn't include the incitement of state and civilian hostility that Kirk was known for
Charlie Kirk was neither a defender of "free speech" nor an opponent of "political violence" in any ethically relevant sense. Indeed, these concepts are often understood by many on both left and right, in such a way as to ignore that some speech suppresses others and that violence takes many forms.
September 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Charlie Kirk was neither a defender of "free speech" nor an opponent of "political violence" in any ethically relevant sense. Indeed, these concepts are often understood by many on both left and right, in such a way as to ignore that some speech suppresses others and that violence takes many forms.
I preferred the original but I can appreciate the artistic intent
June 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I preferred the original but I can appreciate the artistic intent
I have transcended beyond the need to hear from my intellectual opponents, as I have acquired the ability to simulate their thoughts entirely within my own mind. Begone Mark Cuban! For you have but a mere fraction of my power.
June 9, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I have transcended beyond the need to hear from my intellectual opponents, as I have acquired the ability to simulate their thoughts entirely within my own mind. Begone Mark Cuban! For you have but a mere fraction of my power.
Amateur. You can get a much higher interest rate if you invest in a swag bag and a bandit mask.
June 7, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Amateur. You can get a much higher interest rate if you invest in a swag bag and a bandit mask.
I always think of Chris Matthew Sciabarra as "Skibidi-barra"
May 27, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I always think of Chris Matthew Sciabarra as "Skibidi-barra"